It also states support for Flash 9 swfs. Previously Director 11 did not work well/atall with AS3/Flash 9 swfs which made it nearly useless.

Streaming support for audio and video with RTMP (red5, flash media server, etc)

Updated video support

Bitmap and audio filters for video

I still think Director is on decline unless they open up the development platform, lose Lingo and allow a real IDE to develop with. So frustrating being restrained to that IDE that is not very flexible and cumbersome to extend and code in when you compare it with cutting edge IDEs like Unity3D or open source flash IDEs like FlashDevelop. It has been completely removed from our workflow for some time due to new Flash 2.5D engines such as papervision 3d, away 3d and sandy or for more immersive hardware rendered 3d, unity3d.

Adobe Director version comparison chart

Product features

Director 11.5

Director 11

Director MX 2004

Support for 5.1 surround sound

Yes

No

No

Real-time audio mixing

Yes

No

No

Audio effects and DSP filters

Yes

No

No

H.264 MPEG-4, FLV, and F4V video support

Yes

No

No

Streaming support for audio and video with RTMP

Yes

No

No

Ability to apply audio filters on a video

Yes

No

No

Ability to apply bitmap filters on a video

Yes

No

No

Google SketchUp file import

Yes

No

No

Enhanced physics engine with support for dynamic concave rigid bodies

Yes

No

No

ByteArray datatype for binary data handling

Yes

No

No

Multiple undo/redo for text editors

Yes

No

No

Text rendering and performance optimization

Yes

No

No

Cross-domain policy support for Adobe Shockwave® Player

Yes

No

No

Mac OS X Leopard support

Yes

No

No

Unicode support

Yes

Yes

No

Microsoft DirectX 9 support

Yes

Yes

No

Advanced physics engine with included NVIDIA® PhysX™ support

Yes

Yes

No

JavaScript dictionary

Yes

Yes

No

Code snippets

Yes

Yes

No

Bitmap filters

Yes

Yes

No

Microsoft® Windows Vista® support

Yes

Yes

No

Support for Intel® based Macs

Yes

Yes

No

Cross-platform projector publishing

Yes

Yes

Yes

Web publishing with Adobe Shockwave Player

Yes

Yes

Yes

Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats, including SWF

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